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Bone Machine: 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Plastic Surgery

Maggie Sieger
Yari Bovalino
August 03, 2017

At first glance, the line of cheerfully colored plastic skulls atop professor Laurent Lantieri’s bookshelf might be out-of-season Halloween decorations. But a closer look reveals something less than cheery: jagged holes, missing jaws and crumpled eye sockets. The skulls represent something very real — injuries that Lantieri has fixed.

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Mind Meld: How GE And A 3D-Printing Visionary Joined Forces

Tomas Kellner
July 10, 2017
Few people know more about 3D printing than Greg Morris. The entrepreneur bought his first stereolithography machine back in 1994, when 3D printers were still largely confined to university labs and research centers. That machine allowed Morris to print polymer parts layer by layer directly from a drawing inside a computer.
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Dream come true: an Australian sleep-apnoea solution

Natalie Filatoff
July 05, 2017
From a bed of the softest titanium powder, 60 silvery air pipes emerge, perfectly formed by an electron-beam 3D printer. Each hollow harbinger of peaceful breathing is specifically shaped to fit the bite and feed the airways of one person suffering obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).
This is the story of how Dr Christopher Hart, a sleep-deprived Australian dentist, collaborated with CSIRO, the nation’s innovation enabler, to lift the snorer’s curse for himself and for thousands, perhaps soon to be hundreds of thousands, of others.
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Laser Focus: See How One 3D-Printing Pioneer Is Heating Up Industry

Tomas Kellner
June 29, 2017
Frank Herzog is the founder and CEO of Concept Laser, a pioneering maker of 3D printing machines. Concept Laser’s printers can produce precise hip joint replacements and surgical tools as well entire engine blocks.
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Learning By Heart: 3D Printing Could Help Save Lives One Day

Yari Bovalino
Dorothy Pomerantz
June 27, 2017
As a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, Richard Trimlett knows a few things about the heart. He and his colleagues in the U.K. perform 35,000 heart surgeries every year on average. Trimlett typically begins an open-heart surgery by stabilizing the heart with a suction device. But a minimally invasive procedure called keyhole heart surgery is even more delicate.
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GE Is Building The World’s Largest ‘Additive’ Machine For 3D Printing Metals

Tomas Kellner
June 20, 2017
3D printing is growing up. Literally. GE Additive, a new GE business dedicated to supplying 3D printers, materials and engineering consulting services, announced today it is developing the world’s largest laser-powered 3D printer that prints parts from metal powder.
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GE's 3D-Printed Airplane Engine Will Run This Year

June 19, 2017
The last time engineers designed a civilian turboprop engine from scratch for mass-production, humans had not yet landed on the moon. Unlike jet engines, turboprops typically power small commercial shuttles and personal aircraft, but they still represent a multibillion-dollar market. As a result, a new machine created by a team at GE Aviation is now causing a stir.
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 09, 2017
Engineers in the U.S. built a tiny cyber-backpack that allows them to control a dragonfly in flight, their colleagues at MIT equipped a robot with sensors that gave it a sense of touch and their colleagues in Rhode Island and China designed a heat-resistant ceramic that can be squished like a marshmallow but survive temperatures up to 800 degrees Celsius. That’s hot!
 

 

Cyborg Dragonfly Takes Flight

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Laser Metalz: Bionic Design Is The Next Frontier For 3D Printing

Tomas Kellner
Yari Bovalino
June 08, 2017
Frank Herzog is the founder and CEO of Concept Laser, which makes the world’s largest industrial printer for metals. His printers can already produce delicate jewelry and medical implants as well as massive engine blocks for trucks. They even started printing “bionic” components for planes. “Bionic design allows you to adapt structures from nature and find the most optimal solution,” says Daniel Hund, Concept Laser’s marketing director.
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GE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing

Yari Bovalino
Tomas Kellner
June 01, 2017
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, unlimited dimension” to how we make products as varied as jewelry, dental implants, planes and jet engines.
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